‘Like many other social reformers in India,
Kavita Krishna, Secretary, All India Progressive Women’s
Association, has pointed out:
”Rape in police custody is very common in India, and in such
cases, inevitably there is a huge cover-up and rarely at all has
any police or army official ever been brought to trial in such
cases”.

For many decades, visitors to Puttaparthi have
seen Sathya Sai Baba surrounded by police and armed forces
personnel all the way up to the top brass. His influence, then,
in “cleaning up”, to use his phrase, his “own backyard” before
transforming the world has some severe limitations. These days,
he is surrounded by Israeli-trained security personnel.
India’s social justice advocates have no such phalanx of
security around them. They are often prey to violence. They also
court that other great oppression: silence’.